Have you ever heard of a country called Scotland? Its now the Scottish Federation of Planets, another ruddy hyper corporation, but its founding country was democratic. It was very similar to the clans. They were rebelling against cruel oppressors (England) and also fought with each other. They had a huge variety of different ideas on what is the best government but they managed (finally) to put aside their differences, fight off their common enemy, and set up their own government, which they kept for 400 years until they peacefully joined back with England and became part of a large democracy with many differences but they were able to still work together, even though there was still resentment among some Scots towards otehr clans and some Scots toward England after 100s of years of enmity. You are mistaken if you think the clans cannot organise a proper and working democracy. The ones who cannot figure out how to run a democracy, which is harder than a dictatorship mind you, are the runners of Omni-Tek.